Copying Mail folders from Tiger to Panther

I have an older iBook with 10.3.9 and an Intel iMac running 10.4.8
I had to re-install the OS on the iBook recently and want to know how I can copy the contents of my mail folders from the iMac to the iBook.
I copied the Mail folder from the ~Library/Mail on the iMac. My accounts are working and all the mail folders came over but they are empty.
In the folder: ~Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Saved Mail/ each folder in the Saved Mail folder is followed by an .mbox file. The various sizes of the files lead me to believe the messages are there but I can't view them.
iMac 2Ghz Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8) iBook G3 700Mhz, G3/BW OWC ZIF upgrade to 600Mhz

The file format used by Mail changed drastically in Mac OS X 10.4.8 (Tiger). Mail 2.x knows about the old data format and can import mailboxes created by Mail 1.x, but Mail 1.x obviously knows nothing about the new data format used by Mail 2.x and doesn’t recognize those files.
Although *.mbox packages appear to be files in Mac OS X 10.3, they’re actually folders just like in Mac OS X 10.4, but Mac OS X 10.3 treats them differently because of the .mbox suffix. Ctrl-click on an *.mbox package and choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu to see the files it contains. Mail 1.x stores all the messages in a single mbox file, whereas Mail 2.x stores them in individual *.emlx files within a Messages folder that Mail 1.x knows nothing about.
You may try using something like emlx to mbox Converter or Emailchemy to convert the *.emlx files to standard mbox format, then import that as Other / Standard mbox in Mail.

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